Television Academy Honors Award
The Television Academy Honors annually awards television programs with socially conscious approaches to social issues.
History
The Television Academy Honors were established in 2008 to recognize "Television with a Conscience"—television programming that inspires, informs, motivates and even has the power to change lives.The most recent of these Emmys, intended to have been hosted in 2023, was cancelled due to the then Writers Guild of America strike.
Honorees
2000s
;1st Annual- Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
- Boston Legal
- Girl Positive
- God's Warriors
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, "Harm"
- Pictures of Hollis Woods
- Planet Earth
- Shame
- Side Order of Life
- A Home for the Holidays
- Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football
- Brothers & Sisters, "Prior Commitments"
- Extreme Makeover Home Edition, "The Martirez & Malek Families"
- Masterpiece Contemporary: "God on Trial"
- Stand Up to Cancer
- 30 Days
- ''Whale Wars''
2010s
;3rd Annual- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, "Coup De Grace"
- Glee, "Wheels"
- Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? With Maria Shriver
- Explorer, "Inside Death Row"
- Private Practice, "Nothing To Fear"
- Taking Chance
- Unlocking Autism
- Vanguard, "The OxyContin Express"
- The 16th Man
- The Big C, "Taking The Plunge"
- Friday Night Lights, "I Can't"
- Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
- The Oprah Winfrey Show, "A Two-Day Oprah Show Event: 200 Adult Men Who Were Molested Come Forward"
- Parenthood, "Pilot"
- Private Practice, "Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King?"
- Wartorn 1861–2010
- The Dr. Oz Show
- The Five
- Harry's Law, "Head Games"
- Hot Coffee
- Men of a Certain Age, "Let the Sun Shine In"
- Rescue Me, '344"
- Women, War & Peace
- A Smile as Big as the Moon
- D.L. Hughley: The Endangered List
- Half The Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide
- Hunger Hits Home
- The Newsroom
- Nick News with Linda Ellerbee
- One Nation Under Dog: Stories of Fear, Loss & Betrayal
- Parenthood
- The Big C: Hereafter
- Comedy Warriors
- The Fosters
- Mea Maxima Culpa
- Mom
- Screw You Cancer
- Vice
- black-ish, "Crime and Punishment"
- E:60, "Dream On: Stories of Boston's Strongest"
- The Normal Heart
- Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert
- Transparent
- Virunga
- Born This Way
- Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
- Homeland
- The Knick
- Mississippi Inferno
- Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
- Before the Flood
- The Night Of
- Speechless
- This Is Us
- We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- 13 Reasons Why
- Andi Mack
- Daughters of Destiny
- Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America
- Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
- LA 92
- One Day at a Time
- Alexa & Katie
- A Million Little Things
- I Am Evidence
- My Last Days
- Pose
- Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story
- ''RBG''
2020s
;13th Annual- 16 Shots
- At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal
- Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
- Queen Sugar
- Unbelievable
- Watchmen
- For Life
- I Am Greta
- I May Destroy You
- Little America
- The Daily Show
- The Social Dilemma
- Welcome to Chechnya
- Black and Missing
- Dopesick
- Insecure
- It's a Sin
- Reservation Dogs
- Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition
- The Year Earth Changed
- Profiled: The Black Man
- 37 Words
- As We See It
- Mo
- The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
- The U.S. and the Holocaust
- We're Here
- 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed
- The 1619 Project
- A Small Light
- Beef
- Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court
- Heartstopper
- Lakota Nation vs. United States
- Daughters
- Genius: MLK/X
- Greener Pastures
- Out of My Mind
- We Will Dance Again
- ''Will & Harper''